STEWART CINK toasted his Open success by filling the famous Claret Jug with Guinness.

The American, who beat 59-year-old Tom Watson in a play-off at Turnberry, has had a hectic time since his first major win, including an appearance on the David Letterman show in the United States.

Prior to that though Cink partied with friends back in his home state of Georgia and found a new use for the famous Open trinket.

He said: “We started celebrating right away. We moved it into town at a restaurant, took over about a quarter of the place, filled it up with Guinness, the Jug, that is, and had a good ’ole time for a few hours and went back to the house and basically collapsed and began making plans for the next day.”

Cink also enjoyed some other fringe benefits of his triumph at Turnberry.

The Turnberry Hotel reserves a special suite, like a custom-made suite for the Open champions that have won there, so they had the Price Suite, the Watson Suite and the Norman Suite”, he revealed.

“So after all of the media obligations and the cocktail reception with the R&A, trophy presentation, all of that was over, we got back up to the hotel to finally sit down and actually have something to eat and a few drinks.

“And the hotel general manager came in and said ’we would like to move your stuff into the Cink Suite’, which they had recently named for me, thank goodness. So they did.

“They moved us in there and we got to spend the night in my own suite, which is probably something that will never happen again.

“You know, you win a tournament and you get to stay in the suite that’s name after you so recently. So that was really cool.”